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Statutory Instruments

2005 No. 3356

CIVIL AVIATION

The Air Navigation (Dangerous Goods) (Amendment) Regulations 2005

Made

30th November 2005

Coming into force

30th December 2005

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by article 70(1) of the Air Navigation Order 2005(1), hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and Commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Air Navigation (Dangerous Goods) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 and shall come into force on 30th December 2005.

Amendment of Air Navigation (Dangerous Goods) Regulations 2002

2.  The Air Navigation (Dangerous Goods) Regulations 2002(2) shall be amended by substituting for the definition of “Technical Instructions” in Regulation 3(1)—

“Technical Instructions” means the 2005–2006 English language edition of the Technical Instructions for the Safe Transport of Dangerous Goods by Air, as amended by the Addendum to those Instructions dated 18th March 2005 and Addendum No. 2 dated 30th June 2005, which was approved and published by decision of the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organisation.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Karen Buck

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State

Department for Transport

30th November 2005

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

These Regulations further amend the Air Navigation (Dangerous Goods) Regulations 2002. The definition of “Technical Instructions” is further amended so as to include two addenda to the 2005–2006 edition of the Technical Instructions for the Safe Transport of Dangerous Goods by Air, approved and published by decision of the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organisation.

The Technical Instructions (and addenda) can be purchased from Airplan Flight Equipment Limited, Ia Ringway Trading Estate, Shadowmoss Road, Manchester M22 5LR; telephone 0161 499 0023; facsimile 0161 499 0298; e-mail enquiries@afeonline.com.

A regulatory impact study has not been produced for these Regulations.

(1)

S.I. 2005/1970.

(2)

S.I. 2002/2786, as amended by S.I. 2004/3214.